Device Setup

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Use this form to specify the physical devices that interface with the station, such as printers and cash drawers. Devices are set up as templates in POS Device Maintenance. Click Add device to add each device to the station. The Point of Sale Station Device Maintenance form displays.

Device

Select a device from one previously defined (as a template) in Point of Sale Device Maintenance. You can update the parameters for the device so they are specific to the station.

Description

This defaults, in read-only format, to the description of the selected device.

Device type

This defaults, in read-only format, to the device type of the selected device.

Port

Enter the default output port — for example, LPT1 or COM1. For devices other than printers only physical local port addresses can be used, and the device must be connected locally to the workstation, as multiple workstations per device is not supported.

You can enter printer name as specified in Greentree Desktop's Processing System Status and Setup form.

Initialise string

Enter the command that will activate the device when the transaction trigger occurs. This should be on the form of: nn,nn,nn,nn, where nn is an ASCII value of a character responding to the character that must be sent to the device to initialise it (for example, 27 = OPEN CASH DRAWER).

Reset string

Enter the reset string for the device. This should be in the form of: nn,nn,nn,nn, where nn is an ASCII value of a character responding to the character that must be sent to the device to reset it.

Click OK to save the device details and add the device to the station. To edit the details of a device that has already been added to the station, double click on the device line in the table, and the POS Station Device Maintenance form will display.

To remove a device that is previously added to a station, highlight the device line in the table and click Remove device.

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